They buy those things for the gum

Yesterday we noted the very real gaffe on the Derek Jeter 2007 Topps baseball card which featured Mickey Mantle and George W. Bush photoshopped into the background. Today there was even more baseball card news when it was announced that the Honus Wagner T206 card from 1909 was sold for $2.3 million.

Easily the most famous and valuable card in existence because Wagner, aside from being a very good player, asked the tobacco manufacturer that created the card to take his out of circulation. Wagner, it seemed, didn’t want to be a shill for the tobacco company.

But wouldn’t know it that some guy added Teddy Roosevelt and the Phillies’ Ed Delahanty just off Wagner’s shoulder? Those wacky kids and their computers…

And you thought that Billy Ripken card was funny

I saw the Derek Jeter baseball card story on several blogs and web sites today and I still can't wrap my head around it. Did this really happen? George W. Bush and Mickey Mantle photoshopped into the background of Jeter's card? Really? How does that happen?

I can't wait to see what Topps came up with for Alex Rodriguez's card. Please tell me for A-Rod they have Dick Cheney shooting the Easter Bunny with a 12-gauge on the outfield grass at Fenway with Babe Ruth standing off to the side eating a hotdog.